Abstract

With the increasing use of online technologies, Murdoch University has developed a flexible unit model that aims to retire the use of different versions of unit materials for external and internal students, and instead provide an equivalent learning experience through a single set of materials for all students, to be accessed according to their circumstances.

Issues of equivalence of assessment raised by this initiative are examined in the context of current theory, past and emerging practice and the role that university policy and attitudes to supervised assessment play in adoption of alternative assessment methods made available through the use of online technology.